YES, THIS. Thank you. I keep seeing this “Oh, the kids/schools will be so confused”, and really, the kids know who their pain-in-the-butt-sibling is, and the schools have computers that keep track via Student IDs, not on last names.

... And I daresay it’s one of those myths that persists because tradition needs an excuse. I grew up in the 70s and it wasn’t a problem in the slightest; if it’s a problem anywhere now, it’s because sexism, not because somehow this is a challenge organizationally.

As someone who had sibs of different last names and went to many schools, in my experience it’s not at all a problem. ( School databases are ID linked, not last name linked. It’s sort of irrelevant to a computerized system. ) And I’ve never met teachers and principals so slow they decided that when two people call the…

I grew up in a family where my sister and I had different fathers and therefore different last names, and it was really no big deal for us. My friend with two kids has one with her last name and one with her husband’s, and it works!

Apart from the abject stupidity of mistaking Sikhs for Muslims, and the abject stupidity of thinking all Muslims are terrorists ... I also don’t understand why the turban has become a symbol for terrorism in America when literally none of the terrorists acts here (or in France, for that matter) were performed by…

Yes, that, but also the 16 year old has unlimited access to F1 / NASCAR racing videos on the internet but no one bothers to teach him/her how to put on a seatbelt.

I’m with you. I’m really tired of pretending like internalizing the patriarchy is somehow liberating for women just to make sure I’m on the internet’s most cutting edge of feminism. I get it, sisters are doing it for themselves and I love to dance alone as much as the next lady, but come on. We’re only serving men by…

Making her work in a Toll Booth is Juster wrong.

The correct word for full of pus is purulent. /end wordnerd

You know who else liked manufacturing economies?

“But it is the men who are attacking the women. If there is to be a curfew, let the men stay at home.”

Since men are doing all the raping, why not have a curfew for men instead?

This is so sad. In 1978, I was one of two adopted babies allowed out of India. The adoption was through Missionaries of Charity. Given the long-ingrained contempt of women and girls in some aspects of Indian culture, to think that that many more children won’t be helped (mostly girls) is heartbreaking.

My first thought was Jane Lane.

Wow, that is a TERRIBLE way to color-code a map. Like, awful.

That’s not a trifling observation.

Peppers are terrible and horrible and I should probably check if I have some sort of allergy since pepper jack cheese makes me physically ill.

Finally, someone with the courage to stand up to Big Shitty Vegetable.

Well, I know it’s going to be easy to criticize this guy and everything he did but, in fairness, I think he did a great job directing Argo.

BUT DID THE MAMA BEAR GET ELECTROCUTED???